I honestly have no idea how the tool grabbed Googlebot data from external sites, but I did hypothesis a few different reasons why it could be happening in this blog post here.
Visit Time: Jul 22nd, 2025 9:23 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.64.164
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-64-164.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jul 20th, 2025 4:42 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.68.36
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-68-36.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jul 20th, 2025 4:42 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.68.35
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-68-35.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jul 15th, 2025 6:40 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.70.35
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-70-35.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jul 15th, 2025 6:40 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.70.36
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-70-36.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.119 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jul 14th, 2025 12:10 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.79.170
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-79-170.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jul 14th, 2025 12:10 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.79.169
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-79-169.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jul 6th, 2025 9:40 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.69.37
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-69-37.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jul 6th, 2025 9:40 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.69.37
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-69-37.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jul 6th, 2025 4:33 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.44
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-44.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jun 28th, 2025 2:58 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.70.96
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-70-96.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jun 27th, 2025 6:19 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.66.162
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-66-162.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jun 26th, 2025 2:56 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.74.110
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-74-110.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jun 26th, 2025 2:56 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.74.96
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-74-96.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jun 25th, 2025 3:40 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.77.201
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-77-201.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404